40 Movie Quotes about Writers (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: May 6, 2026

Memorable quotes about writers, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 But I'm over all of that. I'm painting and stuff. Writing. I want to be a writer. Or maybe a painter, I don't know, maybe both. I'll write a book and draw the pictures. Then maybe people will understand me. I don't know, change things.

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko

22 No, I'm a writer, I know dialogue... and that's particularly harsh.

Billy Crystal as Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally...

23 I don't know, Coach. You know, uh, I been doing so good in English classes, you know... I figured I'd take next fall off and become a writer.

Jason London as Randall "Pink" Floyd in Dazed and Confused (1993)

24 Bon voyage, man. Don't forget to write! Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh?

Daws Butler in The Tex Avery Show

25 He's a writer. -Movies? -Books. My wife reads herself to sleep with 'em. -Oh. One of those writers. -Yeah.

Carole Lombard in The Moon's Our Home (1941)

26 That sounds like a cheap novelette. -I write cheap novelettes.

Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins in The Third Man (1949)

27 No. I don't know. I'm just a hack writer who drinks too much and falls in love with girls... You. -Me? -Don't be such a fool. Of course.

Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins in The Third Man (1949)

28 Well, he's a writer. People like him can afford to be temperamental.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

29 Allow me to introduce myself more fully. I'm Peter Alison, one of America's greatest writers of unimportant books.

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

30 I'd like to get my hands on whoever wrote this script.

Kevin Bishop as Jim Hawkins in Muppet Treasure Island